I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.

Kindness is the fragrance of pure love.

You don't win battles you walk away from.

A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine elements.

Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.

Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.

A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within.

People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.

Elite warriors, when they accomplish their mission, they celebrate.

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.